Milk
object · 4 works · 4 mentions · 5 anchored passages
milk · the form of milk
in the texts
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
Milk sought as a material blessing of abundance for the household.
The gods have bestowed milk upon me;
Aphorisms
A dietary substance given or withheld in various disease states
It is a bad thing to give milk to persons having headache, and it is also bad to give it in fevers, and to persons whose hypochondria are swelled up, and troubled with borborygmi, and to thirsty persons;
Kitāb al-Zawrāʼ wa-al-taʻlīqāt ʻalayhi
The substantial form in which the single reality of knowledge appears in the abode of dream-vision.
and that same reality appears in the abode of dream-vision in a substantial form — I mean the form of milk.
Brahmabindūpaniṣad
Milk used as a simile, first for knowledge common to differently marked cows/doctrines, then as the medium concealing ghee/vijñāna.
Like ghee hidden within milk, vijñāna (realized, discriminative knowledge) dwells in every single being;
Of cows of many colors the milk yet has [but] one color;